Thesaurus results for FOLKTALE

folktale

noun

as in tale

a traditional description of imaginary events circulated orally among a people West African folktales that continue to be passed from generation to generation through storytelling

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Recent Examples of folktale This relationship brings another level to the film, as Kotevska weaves in the titular folktale of Silyan, about another lonely man and his stork. —

Alissa Simon, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026 Below, see the streamer’s list of authors to watch, from contemporary folktales and family dramas to dark fantasy and spicy time travel tales. —

Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025 To keep her on track, Hero tells Cherry stories each night, loosely adapting the framework of the classic collection of Arabic folktales One Thousand and One Nights. —

Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025 Atmospheric principles and folktales, spirit and substance, opposites and inversions. —

Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for folktale

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One tree may have even witnessed the grisly moment told of in tall tales, which gave Hangman's Gulch its name, but sadly, the tree recently died and had to be cut down for the safety of trail users.

— Olivia Young, CBS News, 19 June 2026
China has two films in the main competition, the 2025 $215m box office hit Nobody by Shui Yu, and Tana, a contemporary tale about a young woman who leaves Shanghai to support her ailing father in Inner Mongolia.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 June 2026